Provides and integrated, action-oriented roadmap to all the control system tools and techniques that are needed to manage a business effectively. New accounting techniques including profit wheel analysis, and Strategic profitability analysis. Provides the most comprehensive presentation of the Balances scorecard approach by one of its originators. A carefully integrated structure. For managers and MBAs who are interested in learning more about Management Control Systems.

Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy: Text and Cases

Business & Money

Kaplan, Robert S.

Simons, Robert

Dávila, Antonio

Accounting

Pearson College Div

Developing and Financing Environmentally Contaminated Urban Real Estate

Turning Brownfields into Greenbacks: Developing and Financing Environment

Urban Land Inst

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core values and provide inspiration and direction, boundary systems that frame the strategic domain and define the limits of freedom, and interactive systems that provide flexibility in adapting to competitive environments and encourage organizational learning. These four control systems, according to Simons, will provide managers with the basic levers for pursuing strategic objectives.

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business Review Press

Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy Text and Cases

Pearson Education Limited

In Control in an Age of Empowerment, Robert Simons explains how to give employees the freedom to innovate while protecting your firm from loose cannons. Using powerful examples, Simons shows how to apply four powerful management "levers" to balance autonomy with control: Traditional diagnostic control systems, Belief systems, Boundary systems, and Interactive control systems. Used in concert, these four levers give you the control you need--without sacrificing the creative thinking your company can't do without.

Control in an Age of Empowerment (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Harvard Business Press

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. How to accomplish all this? Continually ask the right questions, advises Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons presents the seven key questions you and your team must regularly explore together: ·Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? ·How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those values? ·What critical performance variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? ·What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? ·How are you generating creative tension? Is that tension catalyzing innovation across units? ·How committed are your employees to helping each other? Are they sharing responsibility for your company’s success? ·What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? How are you riveting everyone's attention on those uncertainties? These questions force you to reexamine the unspoken assumptions underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Simons' extensive examples then help you understand your options and make the tough choices needed for your company to excel at execution. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a no-nonsense, must-read resource for all leaders in your organization.

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Business Culture

When Bad Things Happen to Good Property features a review of economics and theory of real estate environmental damages, empirical results from peer-reviewed literature, and legal outcomes of environmental contamination litigation in the United States. It also includes chapters written by plaintiff and defense lawyers on litigating environmental cases and addresses the role of the real estate expert. In addition, the book analyzes outcomes with respect to frequency of lawsuit activity, evaluates litigious approaches for multiple damages cases, and discusses the plight of the small claims plaintiff. It concludes with a review of a number of case studies of actual toxic tort cases. When Bad Things Happen to Good Property is packed with various tables, figures, appendices, as well as a very large reference table (the BIG MATRIX) that assists residential property owners (exposed to different types of contamination) and their attorneys find out what kind of damages may be typical when contamination has affected property values.

When Bad Things Happen To Good Property (Environmental Law Institute)

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Environmental Law Institute

The design of an organization--the accountability system that defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm--has a direct impact on the performance of every employee. Yet, few leaders devote focused attention to how this design is chosen, implemented, and adjusted over time. Robert Simons argues that by viewing design as a powerful and proactive management lever--rather than an inevitable outcome of corporate evolution--leaders can maximize productivity across every level of the organization. Levers of Organization Design presents a new design theory based on four key yet often underrated categories: customer definition, critical performance variables, creative tension, and commitment to mission. Building from these core areas, Simons lays out a step-by-step process leaders can follow to create structures and accountability systems that positively influence how people do their work, where they focus their attention, and how their activities can be aligned to contribute to overall strategic goals. He also introduces four levers of organizational design--unit configuration, diagnostic control systems, interactive networks, and responsibility to others--that leaders can manipulate to improve overall organizational efficiency and effectiveness vastly. For anyone accountable for measuring and managing performance, this book shows how good design can become an organization's roadmap to success. Robert Simons is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration in the accounting &amp; control area at Harvard Business School.

Levers Of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems For Greater Performance And Commitment

Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well located, attractive, eligible for tax credits, and available for redevelopment. In this practical and innovative handbook, authors Simons, DeWine, and Ledebur have compiled a step-by-step guide to finding sustainable new uses for vacant structures. The reuse of these important buildings offers those charged with revitalizing them an opportunity to capture their embodied energy, preserve local beloved landmarks, and boost sustainability. Rehabbing presents an opportunity for developers to recoup some value from these assets. Neighbors and other stakeholders also enjoy benefits as the historic structures are retained and the urban fabric of communities is preserved.
Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn features ten in-depth case studies of adaptive reuse outcomes for religious buildings and public schools that have achieved varying degrees of success. Several case vignettes appear within various chapters to illustrate specific points. The book is a useful tool for architects, planners, developers, and others interested in reusing these important structures. In addition to covering the demographics of demand and supply for historic buildings, the authors demonstrate how to identify a worthy project and how to determine a building's highest and best use, its market potential, and its financial feasibility, including costs and public subsidies. Finally, they address the planning process and how to time the redevelopment and repurposing of these venerable buildings.
Simons, DeWine, and Ledebur explain that while each rehab deal is unique and tricky - especially for prominent community structures that hold significant nostalgic and historical value to community stakeholders - there are identifiable patterns of successful and unsuccessful approaches, patterns that are addressed in turn throughout the redevelopment process.
As the nation moves toward a mind-set and practice of recycling, reusing, and repurposing, this unique exploration of how that applies to buildings is an essential guide for anyone interested in being part of the process as communities develop and change.

Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America's Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools (Sacred Landmarks)

Arts & Photography

Ledebur, Larry

DeWine, Gary

Architecture

The Kent State University Press

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Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy: Text and Cases

Turning Brownfields into Greenbacks: Developing and Financing Environment

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal

Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy Text and Cases

Control in an Age of Empowerment (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

When Bad Things Happen To Good Property (Environmental Law Institute)

Levers Of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems For Greater Performance And Commitment

Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America's Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools (Sacred Landmarks)